Object Details
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- Description
- Ink wash sketch on heavy white card. Facade of a house showing the effects of recent bombardments. Two soldiers sitting up against a stairway; another soldier stands in the road. The dugout cellar shelter depicted is characteristic of where soldiers lived during the war. A label affixed to the bottom of the sketch reads: "HOUSES IN BADONVILLER/BY E. PEIXOTTO/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2995." This label is glued over another illegible label.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- 1918-04
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- ID Number
- AF.25837
- catalog number
- 25837
- accession number
- 64592
- Object Name
- sketch
- Physical Description
- ink wash (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 3/8 in x 12 5/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 32.0675 cm
- depicted
- France: Grand Est, Badonviller
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- World War I Art
- Art
- Combat Art
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_445107
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-7311-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
